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SalaryFacilities Administrator
College location: This is a Cross-College role that is predominantly based at East Surrey College (Redhill) but with occasional travel to John Ruskin College (Croydon)
Salary: Circa £24,000 (Subject to qualifications, skills and experience)
Hours: Full time (37 hours/week)
We are currently looking for an organised and personable Facilities Administrator to join our Facilities team.
In this fast-paced role you will provide an effective and efficient support service to the Facilities Manager, and the rest of the Facilities department.
This is an extremely varied role, carrying out office administration tasks such as; ensuring all operational records and compliance databases are maintained, utilising the Richmond helpdesk to track jobs, monitoring and collating Health and Safety/Compliance information escalating incidents where necessary, and making bookings for the hire of auditorium and other College spaces.
In addition to this you will also be required to support your colleagues in your department by covering the reception area at lunchtimes and providing holiday and sickness cover in both reprographics and Reception.
The successful candidate must have:
- Recent experience of providing administration support, and experience of setting up administration systems/procedures
- Experience with using databases & familiarity with quality improvement systems
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (in particular Excel, Word & Powerpoint)
- Strong experience of working with compliance and procurement
- Maths & English GCSE at Grade C or above (or Level 2 equivalent)
- An IOSH Managing Safely qualification
- Previous experience within a Facilities department is strongly desirable
If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.
Closing Date: Monday 4th December 2023
Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.
Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.
Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus are smoke-free zones.
As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.
